Cladded aluminum-alloy material and production method therefor, and heat exchanger using said cladded aluminum-alloy material and production method therefor

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-9976200-B2
Application number	US-201415108564-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Dec 17, 2014
Priority date	Jan 10, 2014
Publication date	May 22, 2018
Grant date	May 22, 2018

Abstract

A highly corrosion resistant and highly formable cladded aluminum-alloy material, a method for producing the same, a heat exchanger using the same and a method for producing the same are shown. The present cladded aluminum-alloy material has an aluminum alloy core material, an intermediate layer material clad on one surface of the core material and a brazing filler metal clad on the intermediate layer material surface which is not at the core material side, wherein a crystal grain size of the intermediate layer material before brazing heating is 60 μm or more, and in a cross section of the core material in a rolling direction before brazing heating, when R 1 (μm) represents the crystal grain size in a plate thickness direction, and R 2 (μm) represents the crystal grain size in the rolling direction, R 1 /R 2 is 0.30 or less.

First claim

The invention claimed is:

1. A cladded aluminum-alloy material having an aluminum alloy core material, an intermediate layer material clad on one surface of the core material and a brazing filler metal clad on the intermediate layer material surface which is not at the core material side,
wherein the core material comprises an aluminum alloy comprising 0.05 to 1.50 mass % Si, 0.05 to 2.00 mass % Fe, 0.5 to 2.0 mass % Mn and a balance of Al and unavoidable impurities, either one or both of the intermediate layer material and the brazing filler metal comprises 0.05 to 2.50 mass % Mg, the intermediate layer material comprises an aluminum alloy further comprising 0.5 to 8.0 mass % Zn, 0.05 to 1.50 mass % Si, 0.05 to 2.00 mass % Fe and a balance of Al and unavoidable impurities, and the brazing filler metal comprises an aluminum alloy further comprising 2.5 to 13.0 mass % Si, 0.05 to 1.20 mass % Fe and a balance of Al and unavoidable impurities,
a crystal grain size of the intermediate layer material before brazing heating is 60 μm or more, and in a cross section of the core material in a rolling direction before brazing heating, when R 1 (μm) represents the crystal grain size in a plate thickness direction, and R 2 (μm) represents the crystal grain size in the rolling direction, R 1 /R 2 is 0.30 or less.

2. The cladded aluminum-alloy material according to claim 1 , wherein the core material comprises the aluminum alloy further comprising one or, two or more selected from 0.05 to 3.50 mass % Mg, 0.05 to 1.50 mass % Cu, 0.05 to 0.30 mass % Ti, 0.05 to 0.30 mass % Zr, 0.05 to 0.30 mass % Cr and 0.05 to 0.30 mass % V.

3. The cladded aluminum-alloy material according to claim 1 , wherein the intermediate layer material comprises the aluminum alloy further comprising one or, two or more selected from 0.05 to 2.00 mass % Ni, 0.05 to 2.00 mass % Mn, 0.05 to 0.30 mass % Ti, 0.05 to 0.30 mass % Zr, 0.05 to 0.30 mass % Cr and 0.05 to 0.30 mass % V.

4. The cladded aluminum-alloy material according to claim 1 , wherein the brazing filler metal comprises the aluminum alloy further comprising one or, two or more selected from 0.5 to 8.0 mass % Zn, 0.05 to 1.50 mass % Cu, 0.05 to 2.00 mass % Mn, 0.05 to 0.30 mass % Ti, 0.05 to 0.30 mass % Zr, 0.05 to 0.30 mass % Cr and 0.05 to 0.30 mass % V.

5. The cladded aluminum-alloy material according to claim 1 , wherein the brazing filler metal comprises the aluminum alloy further comprising one or two selected from 0.001 to 0.050 mass % Na and 0.001 to 0.050 mass % Sr.

6. A method for producing the cladded aluminum-alloy material according to claim 1 , comprising:
a step of casting the aluminum alloys for the core material, the intermediate layer material and the brazing filler metal, respectively,
a hot rolling step of hot rolling the cast intermediate layer material ingot and the cast brazing filler metal ingot to predetermined thicknesses, respectively,
a cladding step of cladding the intermediate layer material rolled to the predetermined thickness on one surface of the core material ingot, and cladding the brazing filler metal rolled to the predetermined thickness on the intermediate layer material surface which is not at the core material side and thus obtaining a clad material,
a hot clad rolling step of hot rolling the clad material, a cold rolling step of cold rolling the hot-clad-rolled clad material, and
one or more annealing steps of annealing the clad material either during or after the cold rolling step or both during and after the cold rolling step,
wherein in the hot clad rolling step, the rolling start temperature is 400 to 520° C., and the number of rolling passes each with a rolling reduction of 30% or more is restricted to five or less while the temperature of the clad material is 200 to 400° C., and the clad material is held at 200 to 560° C. for 1 to 10 hours in the annealing steps.

7. A cladded aluminum-alloy material having an aluminum alloy core material, an intermediate layer material clad on one surface of the core material, a brazing filler metal clad on the intermediate layer material surface which is not at the core material side, and a brazing filler metal clad on the other surface of the core material,
wherein the core material comprises an aluminum alloy comprising 0.05 to 1.50 mass % Si, 0.05 to 2.00 mass % Fe, 0.5 to 2.0 mass % Mn and a balance of Al and unavoidable impurities, either one or both of the intermediate layer material and the brazing filler metal clad on the intermediate layer material surface which is not at the core material side comprises 0.05 to 2.50 mass % Mg, the intermediate layer material comprises an aluminum alloy further comprising 0.5 to 8.0 mass % Zn, 0.05 to 1.50 mass % Si, 0.05 to 2.00 mass % Fe and a balance of Al and unavoidable impurities, the brazing filler metal clad on the intermediate layer material surface which is not at the core material side comprises an aluminum alloy further comprising 2.5 to 13.0 mass % Si, 0.05 to 1.20 mass % Fe and a balance of Al and unavoidable impurities, the brazing filler metal clad on the other surface of the core material comprises an aluminum alloy comprising 2.5 to 13.0 mass % Si, 0.05 to 1.20 mass % Fe, 0.05 to 2.50 mass % Mg and a balance of Al and unavoidable impurities,
a crystal grain size of the intermediate layer material before brazing heating is 60 μm or more, and in a cross section of the core material in a rolling direction before brazing heating, when R 1 (μm) represents the crystal grain size in a plate thickness direction, and R 2 (μm) represents the crystal grain size in the rolling direction, R 1 /R 2 is 0.30 or less.

8. The cladded aluminum-alloy material according to claim 7 , wherein the core material comprises the aluminum alloy further comprising one or, two or more selected from 0.05 to 3.50 mass % Mg, 0.05 to 1.50 mass % Cu, 0.05 to 0.30 mass % Ti, 0.05 to 0.30 mass % Zr, 0.05 to 0.30 mass % Cr and 0.05 to 0.30 mass % V.

9. The cladded aluminum-alloy material according to claim 7 , wherein the intermediate layer material comprises the aluminum alloy further comprising one or, two or more selected from 0.05 to 2.00 mass % Ni, 0.05 to 2.00 mass % Mn, 0.05 to 0.30 mass % Ti, 0.05 to 0.30 mass % Zr, 0.05 to 0.30 mass % Cr and 0.05 to 0.30 mass % V.

10. The cladded aluminum-alloy material according to claim 7 , wherein the brazing filler metal clad on the intermediate layer material surface which is not at the core material side comprises the aluminum alloy further comprising one or, two or more selected from 0.5 to 8.0 mass % Zn, 0.05 to 1.50 mass % Cu, 0.05 to 2.00 mass % Mn, 0.05 to 0.30 mass % Ti, 0.05 to 0.30 mass % Zr, 0.05 to 0.30 mass % Cr and 0.05 to 0.30 mass % V.

11. The cladded aluminum-alloy material according to claim 7 , wherein the brazing filler metal clad on the intermediate layer material surface which is not at the core material side comprises the aluminum alloy further comprising one or two selected from 0.001 to 0.050 mass % Na and 0.001 to 0.050 mass % Sr.

12. The cladded aluminum-alloy material according to claim 7 , wherein the brazing filler metal clad on the other surface of the core material comprises the aluminum alloy further comprising one or, two or more selected from 0.5 to 8.0 mass % Zn, 0.05 to 1.50 mass % Cu, 0.05 to 2.00 mass % Mn, 0.05 to 0.30 mass % Ti, 0.05 to 0.30 mass % Zr, 0.05 to 0.30 mass % Cr and 0.05 to 0.30 mass % V.

13. The cladded aluminum-alloy material according to claim 7 , wherein the brazing filler metal clad on the other surface of the core material comprises the aluminum alloy further comprising one or two selected from 0.001 to 0.050 mass % Na and 0.001 to 0.05

Assignees

• Uacj Corp

Inventors

• Ando Makoto
• Yanagawa Yutaka
• Niikura Akio

Classifications

• C22F1/057

  of alloys with copper as the next major constituent · CPC title

• C22F1/047

  of alloys with magnesium as the next major constituent · CPC title

• C22F1/04

  of aluminium or alloys based thereon · CPC title

• B23K1/0012

  Brazing of heat exchangers · CPC title

• B21B3/00

  Rolling materials of special alloys so far as the composition of the alloy requires or permits special rolling methods or sequences {; Rolling of aluminium, copper, zinc or other non-ferrous metals}(altering special metallurgical properties of alloys, other than structure consolidation or mechanical properties resulting therefrom C21D, C22F) · CPC title